NO MORE PERFECT MOMS Giveaway
If you are a perfect mom, you can stop reading this right now.
The rest of us who deal with forgetting children’s’ appointments (or forgetting actual children!), or are not gourmet chefs, flawless friends, fabulous decorators, or supermodels can wipe the breakfast crumbs off our sweatshirts and keep reading!
My good friend Jill Savage just released a wonderful book called NO MORE PERFECT MOMS.
Jill is imperfect. It is what I love about her.
She founded and runs an organization for moms called Hearts at Home so people might expect her to be very perfect.
She, instead, expects herself to be very real. And she is.
Our 18-year friendship started with a phone call (during which my water burst for our second child!).
It has continued since and has included our honest sharing about messy homes, messy marriages, wayward kids and imperfect mothering decisions—-from both of us.
Her desire in this book is to help mothers everywhere shelve their desires for perfection along with their insecurities of not measuring up to other moms.
No More Perfect Moms will help you…
- Change your unrealistic expectations to realistic expectations in order to better manage everyday challenges.
- Give grace and love to your husband and children even in difficult family life circumstances.
- Increase your confidence when you resist the urge to compare your insides to other women’s outsides.
- Discover the beauty of grace when you stop judging yourself and stop judging others.
- Find freedom from disappointment when you embrace your real family, your real challenges, and your real, but imperfect, life.
Now, here’s the really cool thing.
Pick up a copy of No More Perfect Moms anytime this week between February 3-9 (online or at a store…and yes, electronic versions such as Kindle and Nook count too!)
Send a copy of your receipt to[email protected]. Scan it, take a picture of it – just be sure to send it to the email! You’ll then be given access to well over $100 worth of resources that will help you on your mothering journey – absolutely free!
To see the cool freebies (including Mp3s, printables and ebooks) click here.
And, to enter to win a free copy here, signed by Jill, simply leave a comment telling us in what area of mothering or life you are not perfect but struggle with insecurity and measuring up.
I’ll go first……looks.
Looks. LOOKS. Always looks. Since 1975…..looks.
You?
I struggle with insecurity and confidence.
Being a Mom is so hard sometimes…I miss them when I am at work. I feel like we don’t have enough hours in the day to do the things that have to be done and spend fun time together. I have to work on patience – it wears thin on those mornings no one wants to get up and get ready. :-)
I have a son who loves to argue and twist my words. I hate to argue and most of the time walk away with things unresolved. I wish I knew the right answer to that problem.
Cooking
I struggle with trying to be the perfect outgoing mom. I’m a very shy person and don’t do all the stuff that some of my daughter’s friends mom’s do. And like all mom’s there are days when your tired and stressed and just want a moment’s peace so tend to lose our patience much quicker. I need to learn to be more patient and outgoing.
I struggle with patience and remembering that she is only 10, even though she acts like she is grown some days. I need to put the brakes on and enjoy these sweet moments, they pass all to quickly!
ensuring adequate education
Time management is probably one of my biggest struggles. I feel a lot if times like I don’t always give my kids the quality time they need because I make myself busy doing other things that may seem important at the time, but in the big grand scheme of things, they are what matter most.
Patience – with myself and others, “am I good enough?”, and time management!! Gonna get this book!
There are so many to choose from, but mostly clutter and making time for the most important things, like my husband, my kids and God.
Number one struggle for me would be messy, unorganized house. I just pray that on any day during the week that no one shows up unexpectedly! My parents and sisters always say that my house looks fine and maybe just a little “lived in”. My husband’s family is a different story, perfect wouldn’t be good enough. So I have been really trying to remember that my approval comes from God and not man.
Not yelling and screaming, especially when I’m going on just a few hours of broken sleep. Those days are always the worst.
I struggle being a new mom of a one month old. I want to do everything “right” as a mom. I’m struggling getting enough sleep because there are things to do. Our house is a mess, laundry piled high, take out constantly, dishes waiting in the sink. If I get a shower, it’s a good day. All I can do is sit in my chair watching tv while nursing my baby every 2 hours. A daunting task to have my baby rely on me for everything.
I struggle with the lie that women have to “do it all.” I’m a new mom and back at work. I constantly put pressure on myself to achieve success at work, be the best mom, the best wife, make the best meals, keep a perfectly clean house, look great all the time, read my Bible and pray every day, volunteer, have lots of friendships. The truth is that I can’t do it all…it’s been hard to keep the house clean, make meals from scratch and always look good when the baby is spitting up on my clothes. I feel worse about myself when I feel that I’m not “doing it all” and “doing it all well,” but I think I am the one who really puts that pressure on myself. And I forget that every mom struggles.
I struggle thinking I don’t do “fun” things with my kids. There is a span in ages and I struggle with ideas for everyone to do at the same time that is fun.
I struggle with yelling:(
I struggle with feeling I don’t do enough inside or outside the home.
I struggle with two daughters who have chosen a much different path than I wanted for them. It is hard extending grace sometimes. Oh and comparing, I probably win the comparison to everyone else award!
I echo the sentiment of many…just one area?? :) The one I struggle with the most is finding the balance between involvement in my children’s lives and allowing them to make sound choices and experience the consequences (good or bad) for them!
I definitely struggle in losing my patience too quickly with my two children. Trying to do everything and tend to everyone, not having any time for myself…I get too frustrated too quickly. I would be blessed to win the gift. Thank you.
Just ONE thing?!?!?!? That’s a tough one. Self-confidence is a biggy for me and extending patience and grace to my kids–allowing them to learn from their mistakes and not trying to fix everything for them. Oh . . .that’s more than one–sorry. The list could go on and on–
Of course we are not perfect in anything. What I want to do but am failing to do regularly is bringing the bible into my and also my 3yr old daughters home. I was raised a Christian and went to a Catholic School but I wasn’t exposed to the bible was not there and I want that to be different for my daughter, however my obedience to this struggles.
Ummm, what area do I NOT struggle in would probably be easier. :) I know a constant is a messy house, which irritates my hubby even more. It’s hard to keep on top of it with our busy schedule. If I didn’t have to sleep, I could get it all done. I struggle with all areas a wife/mother/employee/sibling/adult child struggles with.
Work, home, church, looks, marriage……you name it!! I also take on all the burdens for our entire family. I hate comparing myself to others but it seems to be instinctive.
I struggle with perfectionism, expectations, and comparisons. I often expect more than I should from my husband and young children. Thankfully my family give me lots of grace! I am far from a perfect mom but in my head I think I should be! I am definitely adding this book to my list of “want to read”!